Kim Sun-ah and Cha Seung-won dance for City Hall

On the 16th, the cast was at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Seoul to talk about the upcoming SBS Wednesday-Thursday drama, which is probably most anticipated for its leading lady, Kim Sun-ah. She stars opposite leading man Cha Seung-won in the upbeat, comic series (watch preview below).

Everyone’s eyes are on Kim’s return — it hasn’t been that long since her previous series, last summer’s When Night Comes with Lee Dong-gun, but that series flopped and Kim is still most recognizable for her 2005 turn as Kim Sam-soon.

City Hall’s chief producer expressed confidence that it would be a big hit, while On Air writer Kim Eun-sook calls City Hall the “most fun drama I’ve written so far.”

The series seems light and funny — which is something Kim Sun-ah does well — but it’s got competition. KBS and MBC are also premiering romantic comedies featuring big-name movie stars:

MBC’s Cinderella Man stars Kwon Sang-woo (although it got off to a tepid start yesterday with a 9.3% rating), and KBS’s Six Months just changed its name to Just Looking or While I Was Looking [그저 바라 보다가] and stars Kim Ah-joong and Hwang Jung-min. The latter premieres on the same day as City Hall — April 29.

This all makes for an interesting TV landscape: Monday-Tuesdays are going to sageuk nights for a long while (excepting my current infatuation, the dark Story of a Man), while Wednesday-Thursdays will be dominated by trendy dramas. It’s too bad, actually; I wish the stations mixed it all up for some variety rather than trying to go head to head, genre to genre.